What Yoga is Not
I used to be guilty of sharing this kind of photos on Instagram too There are many issues around how the modern world portrays yoga, which in turns affect how people perceive it. As yoga is misperceived, the modern yoga world is filled with the wrong audience who do not have their expectation quite right. Then, studios and teachers need to twist the tradition of yoga even further to meet the expectation; thus, it becomes a negative feedback cycle. I am in a constant battle between maintaining an indifference to what other people think or do, and telling people what I believe yoga is and is not. On one hand, I think people are free think and do whatever they want, as long as I know what my practice is. On the other hand, as I am receiving this beautiful gift of the world, being yoga, which ameliorates so much of the suffering that human beings experience everyday, I feel the urge to share, to spread and shout "Look! This is the path most of you guys are looking for! Look here!"